My house is only 1000sqft, but we have a 1 car garage and a shed. We also have some areas we hadn't planned on running the chickens through - some pre-existing zone 5 and probably our zone 1, so the estimates are probably sound.

We have 5 mature fruit trees and 10 young ones, including a mulberry, 15 blueberry plants, a 20x10ft garden (I want to rework the garden idea), a sunchoke patch, and a lot of intention to increase perennial and annual forage in each paddock (entire yard).

I do want an area of hypersecurity for unexpected containment needs. I want a portable hutch, but may start with a stationary hutch in the secured area and move them daily in their weekly paddock and back. I do want to avoid a moonscape, unless in one sacrifice area and no free range - only I poop on my sidewalk!

I plan on using the maggot bucket on a tripod as I can, to supplement their bug needs.

I have a quarter acre in Tacoma, WA. I have listened to almost all of Paul's podcasts, read his Chicken 2.0 and Chicken Forage articles, and read Toby's Gaia's Garden. I may not have done my due diligence, in that I have only briefly, and some time ago, perused the boards for the answer to this question. (Another quick search of "chicken squarefoot" got nothing.")

I ask your forgiveness, if this has indeed been asked and answered. (I also ask that someone link the discussion for me!)

I am working on using Paul's best bird practices - 4-5 paddocks, lush forage on textured land, guard dog, etc..., I'd like to have Buff Orps and Muscovy ducks. Someday, I'd like to add rabbits, but don't get distracted by that!

I need to know, how many squarefoot do I need per bird? With or without supplemental feed. I want it better than humane, but I also want to know what my upper limit is. Birds primarily for eggs, sometime down the road I may be willing to let the ducks sit on a clutch a year for meat harvest.

Due to my property size and distance from my neighbors, I can exceed the quick answer from the city of 6 birds per yard.

I have started my downloads! At first it gave me a ticket number request. Closed window and clicked on email link again. Got a "Cannot connect to server because:" message. Closed window and clicked on link again. 3rd time is the charm and with the 3rd click of the email link, I came to the download page!